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Dorothy Scott was a good person. So why did her car speed by the friends she was picking up at the hospital? Why did she drive off, never to be seen again? And who was the man making the calls to her parents, telling them he loved Dorothy, he had Dorothy, he had murdered Dorothy?
Sources:
https://the-line-up.com/dorothy-jane-scott
https://wickedwe.com/dorothy-jane-scott/
truecrimesociety.com
crimeblogger1983.blogspot.com
wikipedia
Russell Colvin’s wife’s family hated him. So when he vanished after a fight with his brothers-in-law, gossip started. Then Uncle Amos started dreaming about finding Russell’s body. Then a dog dug up some bones. Then it got really weird.
In these days of heightened awareness about the dangers of germs, we bring you the story of the woman who killed hundreds just by cooking their food. Or did she? Let’s find out.
Sources:
https://www.history.com/news/10-things-you-may-not-know-about-typhoid-mary
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-frightening-legacy-of-typhoid-mary-180954324/
https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/local-history/story/2020-03-13/recalling-typhoid-mary
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2020/mar/10/typhoid-mary-super-spreader-history
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/typhoid/about.html
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/history/2020/03/typhoid-mary-tragic-tale-exposed-health-impacts-super-spreaders/#close
Have you ever cleaned up with “Maybe You Touched Your Genitals” hand sanitizer? Played in the bathtub with Tranny the Floating Duck radio? Dined on some Dick Sticks or sipped “cock-flavored soup?” Join us as we dig into weird product names.
When Mark met Rachel in a chat room, he fell instantly in love. She introduced him to her little brother. Those two hit it off and became friends. But then someone kidnapped Rachel and started to ask Mark to do some very dark things…
Sources:
https://listverse.com/2017/05/08/top-10-insane-events-in-historys-strangest-online-catfishing-case/
You Want Me 2 Kill Him? by Judy Bachrach, https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2005/02/bachrach200502
2005 Channel 4 Documentary Kill Me If You Can
What happened to the crew of the Mary Celeste? Why would they leave a seaworthy ship in calm waters with food still steaming on the tables… Okay, maybe some B.S. has grown around this story, but it remains a baffling mystery.
New York had tons of street children. Farmers in the midwestern U.S. needed help shucking corn. So putting a bunch of orphans on trains to Kansas to be claimed by farmers was a win-win, right?
Sources:
Prairie Public short videos
https://www.history.com/news/orphan-trains-childrens-aid-society
Orphan Trains Brought Homeless NYC Children to Work on Farms Out West by Erin Blackmore
Riding An Orphan Train West in 1859, A Tough Street Kid Named John Brady Formed a Friendship With Fellow Orphan Andrew Burke. One Would Grow Up to Govern Alaaska; The Other, North Dakota By Victoria Mechler
https://www.cowboysindians.com/2017/05/orphan-train-friends-and-future-governors/
We are taking a quick break - working on some new episodes and some of us are working at our day jobs. We will be back in about a month, so maybe listen to some oldies that you may have missed. Look for new episodes to resume on February 13. Happy New Year everybody! Looking forward to good changes in 2020 (in the world, Weird World isn’t changing one bit). Thank you for listening!
Tom Brown went missing late one night in a small Texas town. His car drove all over town throughout the night. But was he in it? And if he was, was he alive?
Have you heard of a Christmas Poop Log? The man-eating Yule Cat? A Very Special Star Wars Holiday celebration? If not, then this episode is our gift to you. You’re welcome.
How did all those bodies get into a tiny lake in an isolated Himalayan valley? And you’ll never guess how old they were. Then find out if it is a good idea to drill for oil in a lake above a mine. Hint: It’s not.
Sources:
https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/skeleton-lake-of-roopkund-india
The Mystery of the Himalayas’ Skeleton Lake Just Got Weirder by Robin George Andrews, Aug 20, 2019
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/20/science/skeleton-lake-archaeology-roopkund.html
It was part man, part bat, part kangaroo, part light-emitting unicorn, and bulletproof. And it apparently really hated Van Meter, Iowa.
Was Natalia Grace a six year old from Ukraine when she was adopted by an American family? Or 14? Or 22? Was she even from Ukraine? This is the story of the strangest adoption since “Orphan.”
Okay, now for the 10 weirdest wildly popular songs of all time. Songs that millions of people inexplicably said, “I will pay money to hear that song over and over again.”
There are tons of strange songs, but here we stick to songs that topped the charts despite their strangeness. First up - the 20 runners up, then next week the Weirdest 10.
The case takes a turn when Constable Godfrey "remembers" what happened to him after he saw something hovering in the early morning mist. And we try to figure out what happened to Zigmund for five days and how he wound up dead on a coal pile.
Sources:
https://www.historicmysteries.com/zigmund-adamski/
https://www.darkhistories.com/zigmund-adamski-alan-godfrey-a-tale-of-two-halves/
http://www.theironskeptic.com/articles/zygmund/zygmund.htm
http://www.theparanormalguide.com/blog/alan-godfrey-and-zigmund-adamski-part-two
https://wearethemutants.com/2017/08/23/the-alan-godfrey-abduction-case-1980/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Adamski
Read moreZigmund Adamski goes missing in 1980. Five days later he is found dead, but weirdly clean atop a pile of coal. Police are baffled - until one of them sees something that makes him wonder if Zigmund had been abducted by some from far, far away…
Doctor, count, husband, lover, Carl Tanzler was so many things. It was just that those last two things involved a dead woman. Happy Halloween!
Sources:
Carl Tanzler: In Love with the Dead
https://www.historicmysteries.com/carl-tanzler-in-love-with-the-dead/
Carl Tanzler Kept a Corpse Bride for 7 Years in an Actual American Horror Story, Moriah Gill, June 28, 2019
https://rare.us/people/carl-tanzler-elena-hoyos-florida/
Morbid Monday: The Macabre Romance of a Man and a Mummy, Jessica Guerra, October 27, 2014
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/morbid-monday-the-macabre-romance-of-a-man-and-a-mummy
Extraterrestrials don’t just need us for our access to phones. They also want to have sex with us. A lot, if you go by how many humans claim to have been nailed by ETs. Warning: Listener discretion is advised, as in we advise you to listen to this episode.
Sources:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Close_encounter
https://www.paranormal-encyclopedia.com/u/ufo/close-encounters/
https://curiosity.com/topics/the-hynek-scale-is-a-six-item-system-for-classifying-ufo-sightings-and-alien-contact-curiosity/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ant%C3%B4nio_Villas_Boas
https://metro.co.uk/2018/09/19/sex-with-an-alien-was-the-most-pleasure-i-ever-had-et-lovers-reveal-secrets-in-new-book-7959148/
https://www.vice/com/en_us/article/9bzp37/the-paranormal-portraitist-0000576-v22n2
https://livescience.com/20250-alien-abductions-origins.html
https://www.wired.com/2010/12/pl-column-alieninvasion/
Meet the man who invented the word moron. Hitler absolutely loved him, and he influenced American science for decades. Thank you, Dr. Moron.
Sources:
The Kallikak Family: A Study in the Heredity of Feeble-Mindedness (1912) by Henry Goddard
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3987907/
Who Was Deborah Kallikak? Article by J. David Smith
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